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At the Very Least, Your Days of Eating Pacific Ocean Fish Are Over(collapsingintoconsciousness.com)
4 points by jchrisa 13y ago|10 comments
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by jchrisa 13y ago
Thanks. This is why I posted this. Not everyone's office is full of kernel hackers. In real life, most security is grey.
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Showing stored passwords – Tim Berners-Lee(lists.w3.org)
178 points by jchrisa 13y ago|130 comments
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by jchrisa 13y ago
My problem with the rah-rah around Tesla is that, good as they might be compared to the status-quo, they are still cars . There's not enough attention paid to the fact that cars and the sedentary lifestyle they encourage are a net-neg
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The Post-Futurist Manifesto(generation-online.org)
1 points by jchrisa 13y ago|0 comments
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by jchrisa 13y ago
How do pedestrians fare when hit by a Tesla? I'll save my cheering for when they have a self driving one so I no longer have to worry about drunk or distracted drivers.
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A Practical Utopian’s Guide to the Coming Collapse(thebaffler.com)
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by jchrisa 13y ago
These are the years it's most likely to tip certain folks over the precipice into mental illness. A tiny minority are at risk, but those are the years.
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by jchrisa 13y ago
Part of the reason I moved away from the Bay Area is that no one seems to care about it. Everyone is too busy working all the time for their start up, and so there's very little in the way of community. Oakland seems to be the one exce
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by jchrisa 13y ago
One thing they don't teach in CAP theorem class is that you can be AP sometimes and CP others. For instance you can be strongly consistent within one system boundary (perhaps a datacenter) and eventually consistent between datacenters.
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by jchrisa 13y ago
I thought the original point was that it is JavaScript that can do stuff.
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by jchrisa 13y ago
Node's module system is hands down the best module system I've worked with. I wish other new languages would stop trying to innovate and instead just copy what they've done.
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by jchrisa 13y ago
It's actually sort of the opposite. Interest based money is designed so that the numeric value grows over time. A tax on holdings makes its numeric value decrease over time. See http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demur
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by jchrisa 13y ago
Anything that makes driving less convenient is fine by me!
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by jchrisa 13y ago
they have a big PDF that shows they've been able to cut emissions of almost all the bad stuff except NOx, a precursor to acid rain: http://www.avfallsverige.se/fileadmin/uploads/forbranning_en...
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by jchrisa 13y ago
Car2Go is way better positioned for taking the self driving short term rental market
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by jchrisa 13y ago
It's a good question. Maybe that is what they are trying to figure out? I've heard suggestions that the mutation rate can go up in a high-stress environment, perhaps that could be related? I hope the HN research effect kicks in an
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by jchrisa 13y ago
PouchDB is serious. I hope Mozilla picks it up for their mobile OS.
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by jchrisa 13y ago
The way we treat JSON is similar but the performance characteristics are radically different.
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by jchrisa 13y ago
According to this link this is 6x more money than exists http://money.howstuffworks.com/how-much-money-is-in-the-worl...
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Huge methane belch in Arctic could cost $60 trillion(newscientist.com)
1 points by jchrisa 13y ago|1 comments
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by jchrisa 13y ago
So chemical agriculture works for almost a century.
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by jchrisa 13y ago
What's new? The big one is splitting PhoneGap into a bunch of plugins, so you can ship just the code you need and nothing more. This also means components can be revised without waiting for a PhoneGap / Cordova release.
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Adobe PhoneGap 3.0 Released(phonegap.com)
5 points by jchrisa 13y ago|1 comments
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by jchrisa 13y ago
We traded our cars for Bakfiets. Portland Oregon is full of people who, like the Dutch royalty pictured in another comment, use bikes to move kids around. There are a lot of cycling groups for parents and small kids. Here's one: http:
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by jchrisa 13y ago
PouchDB is part of the Sync Gateway test suite. So it should "just work"
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by jchrisa 13y ago
When you have traction, you'll know it. Traction is what allows you to learn. Then you might wanna try not failing, or at least, let features fail fast, but keep the overall ball rolling. Real traction isn't something you can buy,
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by jchrisa 13y ago
Slightly OT: Just today I realized I have a corpus of text that needs sentiment analysis. If you can help please email me at jchris@couchbase.com I need to find the diamonds in the rough in some mailing list archives.
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by jchrisa 13y ago
Obligatory link to "What's Wrong with a Free Lunch" a short synopsis of the main arguments and responses of people against basic income. http://www.amazon.com/Whats-Wrong-Lunch-Democracy-Forum/dp/0..
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by jchrisa 13y ago
the whole point of BI is that everyone gets it, even the rich

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